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Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?

63 points pabs3 | 2 comments | 12 Mar 25 09:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source

How much would you and or your company be willing to fund Mozilla should it need to become independent of Google?
1. giamma ◴[12 Mar 25 12:04 UTC] No.43342332[source]▶
As a Firefox user who is worried about he current browser landscape, I already donated to Mozilla in the past.

However as many others pointed out, there is no way to ensure that the donated amount is used specifically to fund Firefox.

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2. altairprime ◴[13 Mar 25 02:54 UTC] No.43349981[source]▶
More pointedly, the non-profit that receives donations cannot by law then transfer those donations to a for-profit subsidiary except to pay actual costs charged by the subsidiary for services rendered to the parent. The parent has no need of Firefox development services, so an estimate of 0% of donations being used to fund Firefox is a safe guess.